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Coronation of the Virgin,
ca. 1430
Style of Altichiero, active Italy, ca. 1364–93
x1945-1
Copies often provide precious records of lost works of art. In this early example, an unknown draftsman records a large fresco of the Coronation of the Virgin, probably painted by a follower of Altichiero. As the most renowned fourteenth-century artist in Verona, Altichiero influenced the style and iconography of fresco painting for generations to come in the surrounding region of the Veneto. The rather unusual subject matter, with Christ crowning Mary and God blessing the two figures, was quite typical in the Veneto throughout the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.
Information
Title
Coronation of the Virgin
Dates
ca. 1430
Maker
Style of Altichiero
Medium
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash over traces of red chalk, heightened with lead white, on beige laid paper prepared with light brown wash, Inlaid to cream (modern) laid paper.
Dimensions
16.3 × 19.1 cm (6 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
verso: 9.5 × 14.2 cm (3 3/4 × 5 9/16 in.)
frame: 41.9 × 54.6 × 3.2 cm (16 1/2 × 21 1/2 × 1 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1945-1
Inscription
Inscribed in brown ink, on verso lower center: J. II [in unknown hand]
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamped in ink, lower center: R
Reference Numbers
Gibbons 713
Culture
Type
Materials
Padre Sebastiano Resta (1635–1714); Pellegrino Orlandi (1660–1727); Jonathan Richardson Sr., stamp (l. 2184) recto, lower center, in black; Dr. C. Ginsburg, stamp (l. 1145) verso of mount, lower left, in black; H. C. Levis, London; Schaeffer Galleries, New York; Frank Jewett Mather Jr.;
From Scholz, “Italian drawings”: extensive discussion concluding “I would be inclined to consider as a possible author of this work an Emilian or Tuscan painter who may have spent some time in the Veneto, especially under the spell of Guariento.” (See reference Bib. 4382);
- Jacob Bean, Italian drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University; 106 selected examples, (New York: October House, 1966)., no. 23
- Janos Scholz, "Italian Drawings in the Art Museum of Princeton University," Burlington Magazine 109 no. 770 (May, 1967): p. 290-299., p. 294
- Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977)., Vol. 1: pp. 52-53, no. 144 (illustrated in Vol. 2 under the same catalog number)
- "Eine Jan Wielki zugeschriebene Marienkroenung nach Veroneser Vorgabe: Die Ikonografie des "Veroneser Typus", Rozprawy Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie (Selected Papers from the National Museum in Cracow) 5 (2012): p. 241-253.
- Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014)., p. xviii, fig. 1
